#robert flaherty

The Aran Islands lie

off Western Ireland.

All three are small…

wastes of rock…

without trees…without

soil…

In winter storms they

are almost smothered

by the sea… which,

because of the peculiar

shelving of the coastline,

piles up into one of the

most gigantic seas in

the world.

In this desparate environ-

ment the Man of Aran,

because his independence

is the most precious

privilege he can win from

life, fights for his existence,

bare though it may be.

It is a fight from

which he will have

no respite until the

end of his indomitable

days or until he meets

his master _